The life of Indian-born NASA astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who died when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere two years ago, has been immortalised in comic book form.

A 32-page graphic novel was released at a local bookstore and on the Internet on Sunday as part of the Amar Chitra Katha series of Indian heroes and historical events published by India Book House.

posted 10-03-2005 05:10 PM
Just received a copy of this from an Indian colleague, and it is very nicely done... a lot of family history / early childhood stuff I did not know, nicely told and rounding out her life story very well.